@joeyh has an interesting postt about "The Futures of Linux Distributions": https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/futures_of_distributions/ and which references another good one by @liw
IMO one reason we've seen such a gulf between language package managers and distro package managers is that many traditional distros haven't had a "local development environment" option. So you have to turn to you language's tooling for that.
Guix and Nix have development environment modes, but maybe it's too late?
I tried to explain to Debian development friends why this means that Guix and Debian *should* work together: if we get Guix easily installable on Debian, encourage users to do local development in Guix, we can make sure sane, reproducible dev practices happen there. Something that is packageable in Guix is packageable in Debian and vice versa, so both would win.
But when I said this to my friends they got upset. I guess it sounded like "Guix should replace Debian" but I didn't mean that.
